Gurugram civic body to to auction tax defaulters’ properties on August 29

GURUGRAM: The city municipal corporation is set to auction over 20 properties of tax defaulters on August 29 at the Gymkhana Club. The decision comes after it sealed over 519 properties across the city, all of which now face the possibility of being auctioned off.

“Despite extending deadline for paying the property tax, the owners have not bothered to pay this tax. While the first step was to seal the premises of the defaulters, the next step will be to organize a public auction to sell these properties. In the first lot we will auction 20 properties, most of them commercial,” said an MCG official.

The MCG authorities have already issued notices to the property owners intimating them of the proposed auction of their buildings. “We have selected five buildings each from all the four municipal zones and have already intimated the owners of the action we are going to take. In the notice that we have sent to them, we have stated that the cost incurred in organizing the public auction will be recovered from the sale proceedings,” he said.

The MCG commissioner V Umashankar had asked his officials from the taxation department to launch a recovery drive to recover arrears of property tax.